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A SNUG LIFE SOMEWHERE is about Penny Joe Cooper whose brother is killed in a 1916 union tragedy known as the Everett Massacre. When her love affair with Marcel, a music student seven years her junior, is thwarted, she is pulled into a radical organizer's campaign to avenge the "Everett Martyrs". She follows Gabe to Mexico (where they live in a household of Bolsheviks bent on smuggling jewls), then to Chicago (where she rediscovers Marcel, steals a Faberge egg and escapes from Gabe). Then a second event intervenes - the Seattle General Strike of 1919. Penny Joe returns to Seattle to confront Gabe and meets up with a mysterious stranger who turns out to be J. Edgar Hoover. Should she give the Faberge egg to Hoover as evidence against Gabe or just disappear and start a new life? Is she ever going to reunite with her lost love, Marcel?
THE AUTHOR
Jan Shapin is the author of five plays, two screenplays and two novels. A produced playwright and recipient of a R.I. Council for the Humanities grant, this is her first published novel. She lives in Newport, Rhode Island and can be reached via email at jshapin.writer@verizon.net